Mr. Incredible
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| Publisher | Dark Horse Comics/Boom! Studios/The Walt Disney Company/Pixar Animation Studios |
| First appearance | The Incredibles |
| Created by | Brad Bird |
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| Alter ego | Robert "Bob" Parr |
| Team affiliations | Incredible Family (co-leader and head of household) National Supers Agency (ties) |
| Notable aliases | Bob Parr |
| Abilities | Superhuman strength, stamina and durability, enhanced speed and senses, pre-cognitive intuition. |
Robert "Bob" Parr (superhero name Mr. Incredible), is a fictional superhero with great strength and durability introduced in the animated Disney/Pixar motion picture The Incredibles. His strength is of such dimensions that he can single-handedly lift a semi-truck with little difficulty. His best friend is fellow "super" Lucius Best a.k.a. Frozone. Mr. Incredible is married to Elastigirl (Helen Parr), who have three children together: Violet, Dash, and Jack-Jack.
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[edit] The movie
In the past, superheroes were commonplace. Due to injuries and other incidents stemming from Mr. Incredible's rescue attempts on the day of his marriage to Elastigirl, however, a rash of lawsuits against superheroes led to their being forced to hide their hero identities and placement in protection programs. Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl, as Bob and Helen Parr, have settled into a suburban lifestyle near the city of Metroville with their three children. Their two oldest children, Violet and Dash, have superpowers as well — Dash with super-speed and Violet with invisibility and the ability to create forcefields, respectively — but their infant brother Jack-Jack has yet to reveal any. Bob finds his job at an insurance agency boring, and secretly goes off at night with his best friend Lucius (previously known as Frozone) to stop crime.
When Bob, in a fit of frustration, injures his self-serving boss, he loses his job and jeopardizes his family's undercover identity. Empting his briefcase after leaving the office for the last time, he discovers a package containing a recorded message from a woman named Mirage. The message offers him the chance to use his superhero abilities to defeat a rogue robot on a remote island for a large sum of money. Bob keeps his job loss and the new offer secret from Helen and accepts Mirage's offer. He defeats the robot, in the process reliving his old superhero days. Emboldened, he spends several days working himself back into shape, purchases a sports car, and has a new super suit made for him by costume designer Edna Mode. Bob accepts another offer from Mirage to help on the island, but finds himself pitted against a much more powerful robot, which quickly overpowers him. As it is about to decapitate Bob, the robot is brought to heel by its owner: Buddy Pine, a young fan snubbed by Mr. Incredible years ago. Buddy, a bright boy, has grown rich by inventing various gadgetry and has now taken the name the superhero name of Syndrome. He seeks to revenge himself on Mr. Incredible for his rejection as a child and created the robots specifically to defeat the superhero. (Mirage was merely acting as Syndrome's representative.) Syndrome reactivates the robot and Bob is forced to flee; a short chase follows after which Bob is able to trick Syndrome into believing that the robot has won. Bob then sneaks into Syndrome's base and discovers that the inventor has used other superheroes as guinea pigs for the adaptable Omnidroid, upgrading the robot each time. As a result, dozens of Bob's former colleagues have been eliminated. Bob frantically searches Syndrome's computer system for data, and is relieved that the secret identities of his wife or children are not yet known. Unfortunately, Lucius' alter ego is in the system.
Meanwhile, Helen has become suspicious of Bob's activities, and discovers he has been in contact with Edna Mode. Visiting the designer, Helen finds that Edna was so inspired while creating Bob's new suit that she created new suits for each member of the Parr family. Each suit is tailored to its wearer's abilities, and all include homing devices. When Helen uses Bob's to reveal his location on the remote island, its activation reveals Bob's presence to Syndrome's security system and he is quickly subdued. Helen procures a jet to find Bob, but finds that Dash and Violet have stowed away. As it approaches the island, Syndrome has the jet shot down, but the three are able to escape using their powers. On land, Helen goes off to find Bob, leaving Violet and Dash in a supposedly safe location. Helen locates Bob, but meanwhile the two children have run afoul of Syndrome's henchmen. Helen frees her husband while Dash and Violet avoid capture by Syndrome's forces. The four reunite but are quickly captured. Syndrome reveals that he plans to launch the final Omnidroid at Metroville. After allowing the robot to rampage through the city briefly, he intends to use a control armlet to defeat it, then claim superhero status. The robot is launched, and Syndrome follows shortly thereafter. However, Mirage, angry at Syndrome for earlier placing her in harm's way, helps the Parrs to escape and follow on a second rocket.
The Parrs arrive in Metroville as the Omnidroid lays waste to the city, and are quickly met by Frozone. Syndrome attempts to stop the robot, but his plan backfires when the robot recognizes the armlet as a threat to itself and shoots it off his arm. The Parrs and Frozone team up and are able to use the armlet to disable the Omnidroid, saving the city. Acclaimed by a public which no longer shuns superheroes, they return home, only to find that Syndrome has used his knowledge of the Parrs' identity to kidnap Jack-Jack. As Syndrome flies back to his waiting jet, Jack-Jack's shape-shifting powers reveal themselves, which causes Syndrome to drop him. Bob tosses his sports car at the jet, damaging it and causing Syndrome to be sucked into one of the aircraft's engines. Helen is able to catch the falling Jack-Jack, and Violet's force-field ability saves the family from the plummeting wreckage of Syndrome's jet. The Parrs return to their their normal life. As the movie ends, the city is threatened by a new villain, the Underminer, and the family members don their outfits to fight him.
[edit] Powers
Mr. Incredible's primary superpower is super strength. In the DVD's Special Features section he is also listed to possess some form of danger sense, though this seems to be more an intuitive than a super ability. In an early opening of the film, he possessed immunity to injury, shown when his fingers accidentally got in the way of a meat cleaver, but only ending up bending the metal, ruining the blade. This power is not present in the final film, as he bleeds when slashed by the Omnidroid.
[edit] NSA files
Prior to the passing of the Superhero Restriction Act, Mr. Incredible won an eating contest against Thunderhead, eating 55 pies (47 boysenberry, 5 banana cream, and 3 apple crumb) and a liter of mayonnaise, and the NSA nicknamed him "Mr. Inedible". In his audio file, he comments on The Phylange's notorious lack of care for his personal appearance and criticizes the signature yodel that the latter hero had been working on for a year. "Kids cannot look up to a yodeler."
[edit] Appearance
Bob is exceptionally tall, with massive shoulders, chest, and arms, as befits his superhuman strength. He stands 6 feet, 6 inches tall and weighs 350 pounds.
[edit] Events after the movie
[edit] Rise of The Underminer
In this video game, Mr. Incredible tells the family to evacuate the city (along with the rest of the citizens of Metroville) after they are surrounded by The Underminer's robots. After destroying the robots, Mr. Incredible and Frozone follow The Underminer underground and fight more robots along the way. When they access The Underminer's main computer, they learn that he plans to use a machine called the Magnomizer to make the surface world feel like his home. In order to stop the Magnomizer, they have to go through the Sludge Station.
After fighting more robots and hard obstacles, they destroy a machine blocking their path and apparently do the same thing to a wall which reveals a snowy underground part. They go through it and enter a room where they encounter the Magnomizer Guardian and her robot minions. Mr. Incredible throws enough objects to make the Guardian go into overdrive and destroy the room. He and Frozone escape in time, and take an elevator into the Magnomizer basement.
They fight more robots and work their way up, but have to avoid falling from a trap staircase that they cross, and finally reach the top of the building, where the Magnomizer is. Mr. Incredible uses his strength to unscrew the bolts that hold the machine down while Frozone fends off the guard robots. After Mr. Incredible unscrews the last bolt, the building starts to self-destruct. Luckily, the heroes escape with a tank-like machine which falls all the way into a deep, dark pit. There, they fight more robots, whom the Crustodian, head of the Giant Robot Factory, had alerted of the heroes' presence in the Factory.
Finally, the two reach the apparent main office, where the Crustodian is, and eventually defeat the Crustodian in battle, causing the Factory to begin crumbling apart. The Crustodian starts to leave, and Frozone tells Mr. Incredible that there is no time to destroy it (which Incredible is obsessed with doing). They leave once the Crustodian disappears and take an elevator that leads to an underwater tower.
They figure out that they are in a power plant run by a robot named Dug, and that the water is breaking through the crumbling plant. The two reach Dug (after battling difficult robots), who tells them that he did not intend to have the robots attack them, and he agrees to help them save some non-human scientists who are stranded somewhere else in the plant. Along the way, the heroes protect Dug from rouge robots over which Dug has no command and also from lasers, lethal obstacles, and gaps. After all this, Dug opens the door to another elevator to allow Mr. Incredible and Frozone to rescue the scientists, but refuses to travel any further, leaving the heroes on their own.
The heroes find the scientists and save them from being exterminated by rogue robots and lasers. After the heroes take these threats down, the scientists help them return to the surface and confront The Underminer, who shows off a giant machine. But first, the heroes must fight more robots that The Underminer has for them, and after the duo defeats the robots, The Underminer returns with another machine. The heroes damage the machine but The Underminer returns to the bigger machine while the rest of the robots fall at the hands of the heroic duo. The Underminer returns to attack the heroes, but they manage to best him. When The Underminer returns to the smaller machine, he has run out of reinforcements and the rest of the Incredible Family returns to watch as the duo defeats him, the small machine goes haywire, takes off into the air, and crashes onto the big machine, creating a large explosion which presumably kills The Underminer, and the heroes escape the blast.
[edit] Disneyland Adventure
Mr. Incredible appears in the Disney on Ice production Disneyland Adventure.
[edit] Boom! Comics publications
In an interview with Comic Book Resources, Boom! Studios writer and editor-in-chief Mark Waid disclosed that Boom! Comics' first Incredibles story arc, Family Matters, has Mr. Incredible slowly losing his powers (something he is hiding from his family), and that Edna Mode's cousin, Doc Sunbright, has to find out why.[1]
[edit] Actors
- Mr. Incredible's voice actors include:
- Craig T. Nelson in the original English version
- Victor Trujillo in the Latin American Spanish version
- José Antonio Ceinos in the Castilian Spanish version
- Markus-Maria Profitlich in the German version
- Sasu Moilanen in the Finnish version
- Marc Alfos in the French version
- Benoit Rousseau in the Canadian French version
- Demetres Starovas in the Greek version
- Csuja Imre in the Hungarian version
- Adalberto Maria Merli in the Italian version
- Piotr Fronczewski in the Polish version
- Márcio Seixas in the Brazilian Portuguese version
- Allan Svensson in the Swedish version
- Shahrukh Khan in the Hindi version
- Francis Ng in the Cantonese version
- For the Japanese dub, Mr. Incredible was Tomokazu Miura's first role as a seiyū.
- In A Magic Kingdom Adventure, Bob is played by Igor Sinyutin. However, Nelson does not provide the voice.
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